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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing, by Benjamin Graham and Jason Zweig

Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Michael Gilboe

Length: 31 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
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The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Benjamin Graham, with commentary by Jason Zweig, is a thorough guide to the principles of portfolio creation, cost management, stock and bond picking, and stock ownership for the defensive, long-term investor....

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The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins

A 15-minute Summary & Analysis

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Jason P. Hilton

Length: 31 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3 out of 5 stars
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Performance

3.5 out of 5 stars
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The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins is a psychological thriller that tells the story of three women and how their lives intersect. Rachel Watson is an alcoholic. Rachel often drinks to excess and experiences blackouts. She was fired from her job because of her drinking. Afraid to tell Cathy, her roommate, the truth, Rachel continues to take the train from Ashbury to Euston each workday morning and back again, as if she were still employed.

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Summary of High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove | Includes Analysis

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Instaread

Narrated by:
Michael Pauley

Length: 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3 out of 5 stars
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Performance

3 out of 5 stars
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First published in 1983,
High Output Management by Andrew Grove is a management guide based on Grove's 15 years of managerial experience and knowledge as a cofounder, president, and chief executive of Intel. As Grove emphasizes in a new introduction to the book, globalization and the information revolution have dramatically changed the workforce, making people ever more replaceable and the market ever more competitive. Companies must adapt to these changes or face their own irrelevance and extinction.

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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't, by Jim Collins

Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Michael Gilboe

Length: 29 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
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What does it take to make something - an activity, a work of art, a company - great? What are the factors that distinguish the merely good from the truly great? In
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't, Jim Collins offers insight into what makes a business truly great....

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Summary of Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne

Includes Analysis

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Sam Scholl

Length: 23 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
76

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
64

Story

4 out of 5 stars
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Blue Ocean Strategy is the 2015 update to the classic business strategy text of the same name originally published in 2005. The text offers a practical handbook to business students and entrepreneurs who wish to rise above the fray of the competition, become pioneers in previously uncharted market territory, and gain access to impressive growth opportunities and an untapped customer base.

Frankl and his family were imprisoned in concentration camps during the war. Frankl was held in several camps before he was liberated from the last in 1945. During his time in the camps, Frankl witnessed the extreme cruelty of camp guards and the prisoners who were given special status by them, also known as Capos. He also witnessed the cruelty of the prisoners to each other as they underwent the three stages of reaction to their imprisonment.

A group of old school friends meet to catch up. They end up discussing the unexpected, unforeseen changes to their lives, and one friend offers to tell a story about adapting to change. The story he tells involves four characters, two mice named Sniff and Scurry, and two "Littlepeople" named Hem and Haw. All of them are in a maze, looking for cheese, which they need to survive. For the "Littlepeople", cheese also has a larger, metaphysical connotation in the sense that it also makes them happy - their Cheese is thus spelled with a capital C....

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin is a guide to applying leadership principles of the United States Navy's Sea, Air, and Land Teams (SEALs) to business. At the center of the strategies that Willink and Babin illustrate is taking complete responsibility for everything in which all leaders are involved....

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Summary, Analysis & Review of Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow by Instaread

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Dwight Equitz

Length: 28 mins

Unabridged

Overall

4 out of 5 stars
57

Performance

4 out of 5 stars
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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is the story of a Russian aristocrat-turned-waiter who lives 32 years of his life under house arrest at the Hotel Metropol in Moscow. Set in post-revolutionary Russia, the novel follows its protagonist, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, as he develops new friendships, family, and loves, all while confined within the walls of the Metropol.

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Summary of Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek

Includes Analysis

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Dwight Equitz

Length: 29 mins

Unabridged

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4 out of 5 stars
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Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek advocates for a leadership style that focuses on serving others rather than pursuing shareholder goals or personal interests. Modern trends in leadership prioritize profits and executive bonuses over creating a healthy environment for employees. Leaders who think of themselves as serving their employees like family can increase job satisfaction and engagement, which reduces stress and increases productivity because employees feel secure.

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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown

Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Michael Gilboe

Length: 33 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less is a self-help book by Greg McKeown. The book outlines a minimalist approach to tasks and obligations by focusing on truly important goals and learning to turn down opportunities that do not directly contribute to meeting those goals. The modern fixation on multitasking and having it all has paradoxically resulted in accomplished, motivated people doing many relatively unimportant things poorly while neglecting their true goals....

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Summary of Start with Why by Simon Sinek

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Instaread Summaries

Narrated by:
Dwight Equitz

Length: 28 mins

Unabridged

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4 out of 5 stars
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Most companies rely on manipulations to attract customers and employees; they use short-term motivators that do not inspire or encourage loyalty. Customers who are not inspired will stop buying the product as soon as the company cannot keep up the manipulative strategies, and employees are less motivated and less productive when they are not inspired.

1 out of 5 stars

It seems to be done by a computer. Describes was it”s written instead of extracting the ideas. Really bad. Don”t waste your mone

The Girl in the Spider's Web: A Lisbeth Salander Novel is the fourth novel in the Millennium Series by David Lagercrantz. This book follows Lisbeth Salander, a Swedish hacker who, while looking into her father and sister's criminal empire, uncovers information about ties between a criminal organization, the National Security Agency (NSA), and a massive technology corporation.

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Summary of The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling

Includes Analysis

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Sam Scholl

Length: 24 mins

Unabridged

Overall

3.5 out of 5 stars
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a guide for businesses to reliably commit to the goals and plans they set, authored by associates from FranklinCovey, a management consultancy. Rather than focusing on what a business must accomplish to be successful, the four disciplines establish how to accomplish those things.

Bessel van der Kolk, MD, explores the ways in which trauma rewires the brain and changes the way people experience the world. Trauma affects the mind and body immensely and prevents those affected from living in the present. Van der Kolk, who has researched trauma since the 1970s, first became interested in trauma after meeting with Vietnam veterans who had a very hard time living their lives after returning from the war.

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a philosophical treatment of Taleb's research on highly improbable, high-impact events. These events, which Taleb calls "Black Swans", are so improbable that they are unpredictable. However, pundits and scholars are often inclined to fit such extreme events into a causal narrative after the fact, in order to make history appear more organized.

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Summary of I Will Teach You to Be Rich: by Ramit Sethi | Includes Analysis

By:
Instaread

Narrated by:
Sam Scholl

Length: 22 mins

Unabridged

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4 out of 5 stars
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4 out of 5 stars
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Structured as a six-week plan,
I Will Teach You to Be Rich offers no get-rich-quick schemes or stock tips. Instead, the book focuses on long-term, personal finance strategies that build wealth over the course of decades, making the 20-something listener a perfect target audience. The plan also urges its adherents to forego the small changes, like nixing the daily Starbucks latte, to set their sights on far bigger goals that they can achieve over the long term.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (2011) is a book about human motivations. Many of the prevailing ideas about why humans make decisions and operate the way they do aren't true or, at least, they are incomplete. Businesses, schools, and organizations are stuck in outdated, unexamined beliefs about human motivation. These beliefs are rooted in the idea of extrinsic motivation - that people make decisions based on external rewards and punishments.

The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox describes a process by which an unprofitable manufacturing operation can be made profitable. It conveys proven factory turnaround principles through a fictional story....